its a mess here. i am downtown cuz i work here, but do not plan on attending the parade. one of my bosses is going. he has been outside for hours, it keeps getting delayed. the players cant get in from all the traffic. people have abandoned their cars on the highway.... classic bmore. the inhabitants are inconsiderate and the city seems to have been vastly unprepared for the event. no surprise to me.

Floatjackings? Why? (Now you see why I don't visit B'more anymore.)

Stitch, I hope the traffic is back to normal by the time you're ready to head home. Stay safe.

Indeed, most people forget the meaning of the words "average life expectancy" - if you have 5 children that die before aged 2 years, that 6th one is going to have to live a buttload to make the "average" 25 years.

I was exaggerating a bit for the sake of my joke, and I understand how infant mortality (and surviving childhood) impacts life expectancy statistics. However, it was not the norm during the Paleolithic for humans to live to be 70-80 years old; that's nonsense. Did some of them live that long? I'm sure they did, just like some people live to be 100+ nowadays. However, "elderly" during that period still came decades earlier than it does now.